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| author | Ted Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-01-23 05:21:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Ted Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-01-23 05:21:50 +0000 |
| commit | 99cb94bfce3f5e1acc8d86ea3b36811d2c46a911 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ef7d10457f4040da5cb1292d9d34ff59aecce6b /share | |
| parent | f2928cbc2aaf8860f6a4da9d8bd5b5c4ee3ff348 (diff) | |
improve wording ("confusing mesh of hash functions" really?).
note use of chacha cipher.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/arc4random.9 | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/arc4random.9 b/share/man/man9/arc4random.9 index b1b80f2754c..0de3e0882ac 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/arc4random.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/arc4random.9 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.9,v 1.8 2014/01/19 08:05:02 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.9,v 1.9 2014/01/23 05:21:49 tedu Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1996,2000 Michael Shalayeff .\" All rights reserved. @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 19 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 23 2014 $ .Dt ARC4RANDOM 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn add_random -functions below insert random input into a confusing mesh of -hash functions to create a pool to be used by the +functions below mix input into the system entropy pool, which is then used +create a key for the ChaCha stream cipher used in the .Fn arc4random series of functions. .Pp |